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There is always time for the harmony and the beauty of lyrical aspiration to join forces in this world, when they do there is a certain potency of achievement that comes through in any piece of art that is laid bare for the audience to hear, see and immerse themselves into.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10
There have been so few solo albums performed by David Gilmour that waiting for one to arrive is akin to finding the winning lottery numbers two weeks on the trot and knowing that you will share that joy with millions of others.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Control is everything when it comes to be true to your core beliefs, your own artistic barometer, without it manipulation of the senses and a kind of imposed domination is the dangerous step into the void.
Sometimes though losing control is just exquisite, it is the building block of something quite extraordinary and whether it is through just going with the dynamic or the groove, control in all its forms and influences cannot, and should not, be easily dismissed. It is the good judgment and significant thought to understand that restraint does not have to be rigid, flat and uninspired, it just needs to Lose Control at all the right times.
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Long before the Norwegian and Scandinavian invasion became a sublime permanent fixture on the ears of British music lovers, long before the doors of Paul McCartney’s L.I.P.A. became the hotbed of Norse influence and the beauty of a language enthused with British rhythms, a-ha were the go to band of the mid 1980s and early 1990s in which to get a sense of the sensitivity and craftsmanship that seemed so remote and yet only a short distance away.
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It takes guts to continue when a lynch pin has been removed, when a much admired member of the band is no longer sadly part of the world and perhaps a reason for progressing is taken away; it takes magnetism, courage and style to keep the battle raging and strive for what is left still to achieve. In that alone Slayer, after losing the tremendous Jeff Hanneman, deserve credit for coming back with honest intent and grinding pulsating lyrical stance in their latest studio album Repentless.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Quality is everything. It may be that as an artist you produce a song a day, place a poem before the world as it wakes up every morning, slave over an essay of 4000 words in which the core argument is lost, or even show black and white stills of images taken through the eyes of the camera lens every 24 hours, but quantity means nothing if the substance is found to be wanting, skeletal like and hungering for something to hang its chops upon.
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Vanessa Murray has been quietly biding her time on the Liverpool music scene, just out of the spot-lights glare, intriguing enough people and entertaining many more with her ability to support many a musician, notably the great Alan O’ Hare as part of the Only Child project or fellow aspiring musicians from L.I.P.A. It is a spotlight that has dazzled and impressed and now finally, a set of songs that have been carefully knitted together are to be set forth on the world.
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A year can go past so very quickly, projects thought of in the death throes of a winter’s evening with a crackling fire warming the blood and the imagination stirring the pot of what the coming period ahead can be shaped like, can soon all turn to nought. The same wandering thoughts will forever turn on an ever shortening wheel; it is the imperfection that maps out our lives with frightening terminal abandon.
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The work may well be considered over when an album is done and dusted and the subsequent tour refined and completed, yet for Sally Barker coming off the back of working on the superb 2015 Poozies album, Into The Well, and performing in front of millions on The Voice, the only true way to see out the year was not to endorse television’s supposed pull on the world of music but to plough headlong straight into another music recording session and amaze her ever growing number of fans with a showcase of her own songs and a couple of delightful covers in the Love Rat EP.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The dance of death eventually shrouds us all but along the way to be invited to the ball, to be guided and led by the hand to the Danse Macabre is to be enlightened and shown the way of a new breed of Progressive thinking.
For virtual band Imaginary Creatures, being trapped forever on a type of celluloid is not an option, the expression of music that is aching to be released, to be heard in full on their second album Danse Macabre, is one that is liberal and allows the perception that often clouds pre-conception to be disbursed and scattered with the wind, taking the dust of prejudice with it and it is an absolute joy to witness.